the land

The stuff underfoot; the ground we walk on, the soil we grow in, the land we live off. It holds our homes and feeds our lives and minds; never have so many taken so much for granted.

Here's how to dig into it, emotionally, physically and intellectually; and then communicate that experience, face to face with our friends, our visitors, our family and staff and peer businesses. Rolling our sleeves up, really getting our heads round how much incredible stuff we have worth looking after; getting our hands dirty, and loving it.

Just use the drop down right below this sentence; if you want all the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Tools, or the Tamar Valley Tools, for example, simply choose "outstanding Cornwall", or "Tamar Valley". Easy.

By manda

visitor gifting

By manda

spare food is share food!

Putting fresh milk where it belongs. This is one of those efforts by a small group of determined people that is turning something toe-curlingly wasteful into a thing for good. Sows ears into silk purses. We like things like that.

By manda

outstanding cornwall: a smorgasbord of images

By marja

chefs' charter

We believe that good food, good company and happy times go hand in hand with really considerate use of the energy, water, waste and people that go into making them. We’re doing our bit – and then we’ll do even more!

By manda

outstanding cornwall: south coast eastern

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outstanding cornwall: st agnes

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"Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleased To find a nation of such barbarous temper, That, breaking out in hideous violence, Would not afford you an abode on earth, Whet their detested knives against your throats, Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God Owed not nor made not you, nor that the claimants Were not all appropriate to your comforts, But chartered unto them, what would you think To be thus used? this is the strangers case; And this your mountainish inhumanity."

Social enterprises trade just like other businesses; but plough their profit back into activities that benefit people and planet, rather than just lining shareholders' pockets. Wouldn't it be better if your local authority thought like this when buying local services? You could try asking them...Be Positive. Be Deviant. Be creatively disruptive. You might just make something better.